Big clock to tick under Big Skies ... for 10,000 years

Jeff Bezos, a very private former Houstonian, is putting a massive timepiece in a mountain on his land in the Sierra Diablos.

Jeff Bezos, a very private former Houstonian, is putting a massive...

SIERRA DIABLO - Sheathed in a 500-foot deep silo bored into a mountain rising from this rugged stretch of West Texas is a wildly ambitious project to build a massive clock that would tick for 100 centuries.

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